Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling at Northern Illinois University

If you plan to study community health services/liaison/counseling, take a look at what Northern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and approximately 16,769 students attend the school each year. Of the 524 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University in 2021, 18 of them were community health services/liaison/counseling majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling section at the bottom of this page.

NIU Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling

NIU Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks community health services/liaison/counseling programs across the country. The following shows how NIU performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The community health services/liaison/counseling major at NIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Community Health Services/Counseling Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
	6
Best Community Health Services/Counseling Schools	26
Most Popular Community Health Services/Counseling Schools	35
Most Focused Community Health Services/Counseling Schools	65

Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Student Demographics at NIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the community health services/liaison/counseling majors at Northern Illinois University.

NIU Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in community health services/liaison/counseling from NIU in 2021, 17% were men and 83% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its community health services/liaison/counseling bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with a bachelor's in community health services/liaison/counseling.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

NIU also has a doctoral program available in community health services/liaison/counseling. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling Grads May Go Into

A degree in community health services/liaison/counseling can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Community Health Workers	1,270	$42,250

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Andy McMurray under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.